Rachel Skerritt is a Chief Strategy Officer at Attuned Education Partners, a team of nationally-respected practitioners who partner with preK-12 public school system leaders to become well-aligned and well-equipped in the areas of strategic planning, instructional excellence, and impactful professional learning systems. She is a BPS alumna and BPS parent, as well as a former BPS teacher, district administrator, and school leader.

Prior to joining Attuned, Rachel served for five years as Head of School at Boston Latin School (BLS), the nation’s first public school and the top ranked public high school in Massachusetts. There, she led a community of 2,400 students and 200 staff through seismic shifts in teaching and learning due to the global pandemic, and she served on a task force appointed by the Boston School Committee to restructure the admissions policy for Boston's three exam schools in service of greater access and representation from across the city. Rachel assumed leadership of BLS after her role as Deputy Chief of Leadership Development for DC Public Schools, designing professional learning for the system’s principals and aspiring administrators.

Previously, she successfully led Eastern Senior High School through federal turnaround status, implementing the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and raising the school’s graduation rate to among the highest in the district. Before her move to Washington, DC, Rachel was Chief of Staff for BPS. She assumed the Chief of Staff position after her first school principalship at Another Course to College (ACC).

Rachel began her career as a middle and high school English teacher. She holds a BA in English and a Masters in Secondary Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a Masters in Leadership from McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Skerritt grew up in Dorchester and is a resident of Roslindale.